Not true, just better communication through social media and TV
Basically I was about to start taking finasteride 0.5mg but I recently found out my girlfriend was pregnant. Will I be fine to take it or would I be best waiting for the child to be born?
There is no evidence that there is any danger to the unborn child when the man is taking finasteride. The woman should not touch the pill.
There is no evidence that finasteride can accelerate hair loss
He is in Los Angeles and should see me so that I can do Scalp Micropigmentation and make these bald areas disappear. We have done this on quite a few African American Celebrities.
LeBron’s hair piece falls out during game but doesn’t know, Anthony Davis lets him know from tressless
These pictures show that finasteride works throughout the head and scalp. I don’t think I have to tell you which one is the before picture!
These double swirls are not common and from a surgeons prospective, when I transplant such a crown I must follow the double swirl to make the hair reconstruction look normal.
You said “The best way to avoid it is if you are taking finasteride and have significant eD, then stop the medications before it goes on too long.” That is not an effective risk management approach to avoiding post finasteride syndrome. Once a patient decides to take the drug, they should be aware that they are taking on a risk that they may permanently develop post finasteride syndrome. Your post creates the impression that they have the ability to minimize their damage once they start taking the drug which is not true.
I can only go by the experience of a small handful of doctors in the field who are honorable which probably represent experience with well over 50,000 patients combined together. We all stop the finasteride if the ED can’t be addressed by reduced dosages. In our experience of 50,000+ patients, we have never seen PFS in our practice.
Pictures and memories are what we are left with if we are lucky to live long enough. 
Donald had his hair transplant 25 years ago and came to see me today. He volunteered to tell his hair loss history before the hair transplant and here it is!
“I started losing my hair it in9 my early 30s. Being as vain as I am I started looking for answers. The first thing I tried was this electrical comb that smelled weird and purple gas came out of it and they would rub it over my head every week with no results. Of course I was taking vitamins (supposedly) and minerals that were promoted to grow your hair back. There were even hair shampoos that was supposed to grow your hair back etc. I heard that Germany had top technology on hair transplant so I went to Germany. Everything I saw was insufficient and look like dolls hair (that was hair transplants). Then I heard about about a cure in Morocco, so I went there for some sort of cobra venom shots that grew hair so, but eventually I gave up. Until luckily I saw an ad Dr. Rassman had on TV. He was taking one follicle at a time and replacing it on your areas of baldness. Result was natural from day one. And I now have a full head of growing hair.”
Had Donald not hair a hair transplant, he would have a Class 7 balding pattern. The last picture shown is an old photo he brought to the office today taken 10 years before had a hair transplant. To make it look as thick as it does today, we did Scalp Micropigmentation a few months ago. This is something that many men should consider if their hair transplant is not thick enough.
I always try to show that a hair transplant can look normal, Many patients who come to me are frightened that when they get a hair transplant, people will come to them and ask who did their hair transplant. Seeing patients is critical to the educational process I offer and engage in. Today, for example, I am holding an Open House where former patients come in to talk about their hair transplant experience and potential candidates can see for themselves if the hair transplants are really inconspicuous. We often have a surgery and and SMP going on during these Open House events so prospective patients can come in and see what is involved, asking the patients during the surgery how it feels.
He asked me if I knew how he selected me as his surgeon some 20 years ago, so when I said no, he went on to tell me the answer. The day he came to my office, he recognized two of the most famous producers in Hollywood sitting in my lobby. He knew that I would then be his surgeon, a decision he never forgot. He had two surgeries with me totally 4025 grafts. He send on his four best friends to see me as well. The hair they got from me makes them happy today, 20 years later. I tell my patients that you don’t want to take chances with results, because when happens to you everyone will see for the rest of your life. You don’t want to (1) have it failed to have it redone, (2) to have it done poorly so that others can tell you had a hair transplant, (3) have it done without a future plan so that as the genetic hair loss progresses, you don’t have enough hair left to follow the loss as you get older. His before and surgical pictures are show here as well
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29028377
J Cosmet Laser Ther. 2017 Oct 13. doi: 10.1080/14764172.2017.1376094. [Epub ahead of print]
Randomized trial of electrodynamic microneedle combined with 5% minoxidil topical solution for the treatment of Chinese male Androgenetic alopecia.
BACKGROUND:
In treating androgenetic alopecia, 5% minoxidil is a commonly used topical drug. By using electrodynamic microneedle at the same time may increase absorption of minoxidil and further stimulate hair growth.
OBJECTIVE:
A 24-week, randomized, evaluator blinded, comparative study was performed to evaluate the efficacy of treating Chinese male androgenetic alopecia using microneedle combined with 5% minoxidil topical solution.
METHODS:
Randomized subjects received topical 5% minoxidil (group 1, n = 20), local electrodynamic microneedle treatments (group 2, n = 20), or local electrodynamic microneedle treatments plus topical 5% minoxidil (group 3, n = 20). A total of 12 microneedle treatments were performed every 2 weeks with 2ml 5% minoxidil delivery in group 3 during each microneedle treatment. Patient receiving topical 5% minoxidil applied 1 ml of the solution twice daily over the course of the study. A total of 60 Chinese male subjects with Norwood-Hamilton type III-VI androgenetic alopecia were treated.
RESULTS:
The mean improvement in total hair density from baseline to 24 weeks was 18.8/cm2 in group 1, 23.4/cm2 in group 2, and 38.3/cm2 in group 3. The hair growth in the 3 groups was significantly different (P = 0.002), but there were no significant differences in toxicity found between the 3 groups.
CONCLUSIONS:
Treatment with microneedle plus topical 5% minoxidil was associated with the best hair growth.
KEYWORDS:
Androgenetic alopecia; Chinese; microneedle; minoxidil
There is a safe limit as to how many FUE grafts you can safely harvest before you get a see-through donor area. This post defines this according to your donor density: https://newhair.com/resources/#tab-id-4 Most people can’t support 5000 FUE grafts without getting donor site depletion
